Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer
This paper explores how George Turner’s The Sea and Summer utilizes nostalgic narrative to develop an affective attachment to the climate disaster and instigates, in its narrative, meaningful change. Through a consideration of Svetlana Boym’s reflective nostalgia, the affective response the novel ac...
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ftuniaarhuspubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/74c8bf8a-0713-40c8-ac8b-e19196a018fc 2023-05-15T13:46:23+02:00 Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer Stephan, Matthias 2021-03 https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/nostalgic-narrative-and-affective-climate-sf-in-george-turners-the-sea-and-summer(74c8bf8a-0713-40c8-ac8b-e19196a018fc).html https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0109 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Stephan , M 2021 , ' Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer ' , Science Fiction Studies , vol. 48 , no. 1 , pp. 109-123 . < https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0109 > Science Fiction Gothic Otherness SF nostalgia The Sea and Summer affect Climate change climate change fiction climate sf Apocalyptic Fiction article 2021 ftuniaarhuspubl https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0109 2022-09-21T22:52:50Z This paper explores how George Turner’s The Sea and Summer utilizes nostalgic narrative to develop an affective attachment to the climate disaster and instigates, in its narrative, meaningful change. Through a consideration of Svetlana Boym’s reflective nostalgia, the affective response the novel activates, and the affect created by Gothic tropes, I suggest that this combination produces an exemplary response. The narrative presents a frame story set in a distant future after the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, and the bulk of the prescient climate sf novel is presented as a novelistic rendering of this pre-apocalyptic scenario. This combination allows the reader to consider the temporal scale, producing a medium scale, which allows the reader to grasp the complexity of the problem without being overwhelmed by its vastness. I argue that rather than exorcising our fears, such literary narratives can make the realities of climate change more present to contemporary readers. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Aarhus University: Research Antarctic The Antarctic |
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This paper explores how George Turner’s The Sea and Summer utilizes nostalgic narrative to develop an affective attachment to the climate disaster and instigates, in its narrative, meaningful change. Through a consideration of Svetlana Boym’s reflective nostalgia, the affective response the novel activates, and the affect created by Gothic tropes, I suggest that this combination produces an exemplary response. The narrative presents a frame story set in a distant future after the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, and the bulk of the prescient climate sf novel is presented as a novelistic rendering of this pre-apocalyptic scenario. This combination allows the reader to consider the temporal scale, producing a medium scale, which allows the reader to grasp the complexity of the problem without being overwhelmed by its vastness. I argue that rather than exorcising our fears, such literary narratives can make the realities of climate change more present to contemporary readers. |
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Stephan , M 2021 , ' Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer ' , Science Fiction Studies , vol. 48 , no. 1 , pp. 109-123 . < https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0109 > |
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